Pyromania! - Playing With Fire (VCE)(1998)

by: VCE inc.

Publication date: 1998-04-21
Topics: Pyromania, Pyromania!, Pyromania! Pro, VCE, VCE Films, VCE inc, Visual Concept Engineering, stock footage, explosions, fire footage, VFX, special effects, 90s, video games, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Next Generation, Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Starship Troopers, Robocop, Babylon 5, LightWave, Lightwave 3D, 3D Studio MAX, Foundation Imaging, SeaQuest DSV, Amblin Imaging, CD-Rom, Windows, Macintosh, Quicktime, SD, standard definition, compositing, video editing, Computer Graphics, CGI, SGI, Silicon Graphics, Playing With Fire, Duke Nukem 3D, Command & Conquer, Hypernauts, Space 2063, Shadow Warrior, Blood, Hercules The Legendary Journeys, Discovery Channel, SciFi Channel, NBC, Softimage, Seaquest, Westwood Studios, Netter Digital, Santa Barbara Studios, Digital Muse, Visual Concept Entertainment., Diablo, Blizzard Entertainment, 3D Realms, Xatrix Entertainment, Redneck Rampage, Twisted Metal, Descent, Parallax Software, Interplay, Area 51, Atari, Fury3, Terminal Reality, MechWarrior 2, Killing Time, Hexen, space above and beyond
Language: English
Item Size: 313.4M

Pyromania! - Playing With Fire (Volume 1-4, QuickTime)

Popular and very recognizable (Big Explosion, Small Explosion, ZeroG Explosion etc.) stock footage collection from the 90s. First released in 1993-94. Used in many movies, TV shows and video games.

This is the 1998 "Playing With Fire" release. It contains Volume 1, 2 and both Pro discs.

Content is provided as ZIP archives for convenience.

Footage comes as MOV / QuickTime format for use in any compositing application.

Some sequences come with corresponding luma mattes.

The included 'Pyromania.pdf' provides more information about individual clips.

The codec used produces false colors in some versions of Windows Media Player and VLC. QuickTime Player and applications Like AE and Fusion will load and play the files correctly.

It is recommended to convert QuickTime files into image sequences.

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PYROMANIA! - Playing With Fire™ (Volume 1, 2 and PRO)

Welcome to PYROMANIA!-Playing With Fire by Visual Concept Entertainment. VCE has been a leader in producing visual effects for the motion picture industry over the past 20 years. Over 200 motion pictures including RETURN OF THE JEDI, ROBOCOP, BEETLE JUICE, ADDAMS FAMILY, and most recently MEN IN BLACK have featured our work.

That expertise is now available for the first time with professionally photographed motion picture visual effects elements filmed especially for this CD-ROM. Pyromania has been used on "Babylon 5," "Hercules-The Legendary Journeys," and in the Academy Award™ Nominee "Starship Troopers." Pyromania has been used for promos on NBC, The Discovery Channel, The SciFi Channel.

The images on these CD-ROM's are not computer generated effects or computer graphics! The images on these discs were photographed for their "organic" quality and are currently difficult if not impossible to recreate successfully or realistically using computer technology.

The image files on these CD-ROM's are not "video-captured". Each image was originally photographed on 35mm motion picture film. The negatives were scanned using a linear array scanner at 2K resolution (2048 pixels wide x 1536 pixels high, 72 dpi and sampled down.*

This results in a higher quality image without "video artifacting" or "video quality" as observed in other CD-ROM's utilizing video captured and converted QuickTime™ movies.

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* HD versions of Pyromania are still available